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The Centennial Controversy: How to Classify the Chinese Adverb Dōu?

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The centenary research history of the adverb dōu is very controversial. There are severe divergences in academic circles on how to classify the semantic and pragmatic functions of the adverb dōu. In the existing literature, there are mainly three versions: the trichotomy, the dichotomy, and the univocal. Trichotomy and Dichotomy define the semantic and pragmatic functions of each sub-dōu with synonyms in Chinese analytical formulas. This kind of description is simple, convenient, and intuitive but also relatively vague and hard to verify. Moreover, there is a lack of extractions and instructions of the distinctive oppositions for different sub-dōus. Univocal takes totalizing universal or the universal/distributive quantification as the consistent feature of the adverb dōu. The verification cannot cover all corpora of dōu, besides, it cannot evade the distinctive oppositions between dōu_a and dōu_b, which are opposite to the consistent feature. After reviewing various views on the classification of dōu in the existing literature, this paper illustrates the distinctive semantic and pragmatic oppositions between dōu_a and dōu_b. The first is the quantificational semantic features with objective truth values that dōu_a has, but dōu_b does not. The second is the pragmatic features of a subjective evaluation that dōu_b has, but dōu_a does not. So this paper approves of the Dichotomy that the adverbs dōu are dōu_a and dōu_b.

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Titel: The Centennial Controversy: How to Classify the Chinese Adverb Dōu?
verfasst von: Hua Zhong
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Chinese Lexical Semantics
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38188-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-38189-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_6

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